Ebook: The effects of music therapy on the vocational reabilitation of residents in psychiatric halfway houses

Lia O., The effects of music therapy on the vocational reabilitation of residents in psychiatric halfway houses,
The Florida State University, School of music, 2003
A Thesis submitted to the Department of Music Therapy in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music,ABSTRACTThe purpose of this study was to examine the effect of music therapy intervention
on the vocational rehabilitation of individuals with psychiatric disabilities who were
residing in halfway houses. The subjects were 23 adult psychiatric clients with a mean
age of 44.8 years old. The experimental groups contained 11 subjects, and the no contact
control group contained 12 subjects. With a pretest-posttest design, four music therapy
sessions addressing interpersonal relationship skills at an employment setting were given
to the experiment groups. The pretest and posttest scores were collected on a measure of
the Test of Interpersonal Competence for Employment (TICE). The normative control
subjects (n=11) with no psychiatric diagnosis were tested on TICE for a profile
comparison. The Mann Whitney U test was used to analyze the data at the .05 level of
significance. No statistical significance was found on the pretest scores of the supervisor
test (U=61.5, p .05) and of the coworker test (U=53.5, p .05). The results indicated that
there was no significant difference on the posttest scores of the supervisor test (U=43,
p .05) and of the coworker test (U=58, p .05). Other findings of the study are discussed.